新儿子

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster

　　香港警察朱福龙（甄子丹 饰）因一次工作失误惨被降级，万般无奈之际又遭未婚妻可儿（周励淇 饰）悔婚，事业爱情的双重打击令他一蹶不振，暴饮暴食六个月后体重猛增到220磅！上司黄警官不忍其继续堕落，委派朱福龙前往日本押送一名犯人，并承诺只要完成任务就可以为他恢复职位。可惜来到日本，倒霉的事件便接连在他身上发生，不仅财物尽失，连犯人也在押送途中逃脱了。幸好得到前香港警察潇洒哥（王晶 饰）的帮助才得以暂时解困，为了完成任务找回犯人，朱福龙与潇洒哥共同行动，不料在查找真相的过程中发现了日本黑帮的惊天阴谋......

阿尔菲（迈克尔•凯恩 Michael Caine 饰）生活在繁华的大都市伦敦，平日里最大的爱好便是出没于灯红酒绿的声色犬马之场所。阿尔菲自认为是当代唐璜，流连于不同女人的温香软玉的怀抱之中，私生活十分混乱。                                                                      　　无论是未经人事的清纯少女还是已有家室的成熟人妻，阿尔菲都会散发他强烈的男性魅力，将对方征服。就连在染病住院期间，阿尔菲都没有放过和性感美艳的小护士共赴云雨的机会。某一日，阿尔菲邂逅了美丽的寡妇卢比（谢利•温特斯 Shelley Winters 饰），让前者没有想到的是，自己的撩妹之术在卢比那里竟然全无作用。不仅如此，曾经对他趋之若鹜的女人们也都渐渐地离开了他。

　　这部电影将写实与科幻合而为一。一种传染性性疾病STBO正在国内蔓延，它通过没有感情的性活动传播。　　小偷马克和汉斯欠一个美国女人一笔钱，她限他们两个星期还。他们打算去偷一种专治类似艾滋病的药剂，然后高价转卖。于是他们雇来了亚力克斯，一个正在跟16岁女友丽莎分手的青年。但在计划实施之前，他迷恋上了马克的情妇安娜。丽莎却并没有死心，在他们动手那天她来到了巴黎，使得事情更加复杂化……　　当然，这是个悲剧。Love that burns fast but lasts forever.　　这是导演Leos Carax继《男孩遇见女孩》后的第二部作品，继续他对青春和孤独等题材的关注，也就是在此片的五年之后诞生了影史经典之作——《新桥恋人》。